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with more, here is jake ward. >> reporter: students in san francisco arriving the morning after a historic vote. three school board commissioners ousted in a once in a generation city recall. the city sued the board last year over lack of clear reopening plan following pandemic closures, and parents say their frustration grew when the board focused on renaming a third of the city schools, including this one. but the flashpoint for many was when the board decided to change the admissions process at this, the city's most prestigious high school from a merit based system to lottery based system. majority of students here are asian american, that seems to have drawn in many first time voters. >> we signed up 560 new voters, chinese, asian american voters in the last six weeks. >> reporter: across the country, schools have become a political battleground. last fall, glen youngkin wrote concerns over critical race theory. >> it is my distinct privilege and honor. >> reporter: today, he outlawed school mask mandates. it is the commissioners' fight for social justice that got them in trouble. >> i

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. >> joining me now heidi pryzbyla and jake ward and alex seitz wald. heidi, you're not too far where i am in washington andowd of a school and talk about the parents an the move by governor youngkin signing this mask rule bill into law. >> reporter: this is fairfax county, northern virginia, which is one of the districts that was defying the governor when he tried to do this via executive order. the reality is when you look across the country in other states that have tried to do this, it is the courts that have had the final say. so we talked to two mothers. first you'll hear from stephanie saying after the governor signed her executive order, their children went to school without masks and were suspended and she said we're not considering the long-term implications of mask wearing. and then you could hear from tasha whose son jack has cystic fibrosis and said this is a matter of life and death for her son f. school boards are now allowed to make rules to protect them. take a listen. >> so they wanted to go back to school with a -- with a message. and

nbc's jake ward is covering the story for us. >> reporter: a day after celebrities like lebron jamesrency commercials during the super bowl -- >> call your own shots. >> reporter: -- this new york duo, the crypto couple, appeared in court charged with laundering billions in bitcoin. 34-year-old ilia lichten steen and heather morgan are tech entrepreneurs. he is the founder of a digital wallet company designed to stop fraud and terrorism. morgan, who once wrote that strong personal branding is essential as a founder, dispensed advice on tiktok. >> i'm going to tell you my secret for making dreams a reality. >> reporter: wrote about how to avoid cybercrime and even rapped. but all that time, according to doj, the couple had the proceeds of a 2016 crypto-schefft of nearly 120,000 bitcoins, worth millions when they were stolen. over the years, the couple allegedly moved the money around, trying to hide the origins. but unique passwords were stored online where the authorities found them. >> today the value of that bitcoin has grown to over $4.5 billion. >> reporter: the doj seized $3.6 b

jake ward in san jose, california. mentioned president biden travels to new york city today. but first he is set to speck at the national prayer breakfast this morning. a live look inside the congressional auditorium where the ceremony will take place. it begins in about half an hour. the president will speak and then he will be wheels up for new york city. we will be watching that closely. "morning joe" is coming right back. "morning joe" is coming right "morning joe" is coming right back woo! new personal record, limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ ♪ ♪making your way in th♪ ♪takes everything you've got♪ ♪ ♪taking a break from all your worries ♪ ♪sure would help a lot ♪ ♪wouldn't you like to get away? ♪ ♪ ♪ sometimes you want to go ♪ ♪where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪ ♪and they're always glad you came ♪ mission control, we are go for launch. ♪ um, she's eating the rocket. ♪♪ lunchables! built to be eaten. trelegy for copd. [coughing] ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪

no politics. >> reporter: though the two seem more entwined than ever. >> that's jake ward reportingancisco, this actually wasn't that complicated, this landslide vote of 70 percent to 75% to recall those members. it is their kids were sitting at home remote learning, battling the challenges that have come with that in terms of mental health and everything else while their school was opening. they were watching other school districts open, private schools open and they watched their school board debate name changes instead of fighting to open the doors to the schools. >> you had three things going on, willie, i think are three key issues that democrats not only will be talking about in general election campaigns but what we are seeing in primary campaigns and even in liberal bastions like san francisco. mara, those three are obviously covid, whether the schools open or not, what sort of mandates there are inside the school. parents are watching this closely from north carolina to san francisco. you have the woke politics, the renaming of the schools, the proposed renaming of the cool

jake. >> clarissa ward in kyiv. thank you. here to discuss, the author of a flaw book coming out. a new book called a sacred oath. it comes out in may. thank you for joining us. so in the last few hours cnn has heard explosions across kyiv. we know russia has been frustrated by how much resistance their forces have faced from ukrainians but do you think ultimately, it is inhe was tabl that kyiv will fall to russian forces? >> well, first of all, good to be with you. let me say geopolitically, it is cheer that the post cold war in europe is over. the notion by anybody, the hope that somehow through an economic engagement, putin can be convinced to play by international rules and norms is probably completely extinguished by now or should be. as i said a couple weeks ago, on another network before the invasion, he's already managed to do three things that we knew he didn't want to do. first, to better unify nato. second to have more nato troops on his borders, and third, to push the ukrainian people further into the arms of the west. it is apparent after five days of fighting, those

that it won't be enough to stop what could be a bloody onslaught, jake. >> clarissa ward in kharkiv. we go to erin burnett in will vooif. these are strong measures the united states is taking that will hurt the russian economy. but i wonder what people in ukraine will think if it's too little too late. >> reporter: it will be be welcomed be i the government to people here. it will not feel like much. there is great gratefulness and enthusiasm for what the united states has done. i think so much depends on what happens over the next hours and days, jake. as you described them as robust. i think that's fair. obviously, it's a disappointment that europe would not get on board with bans to the s.w.i.f.t. banking system. i suggest four numbers matter here, jake. one is $100. that's where brent and crude oil are trading now. so denying russia whose companies that deal with that the ability to benefit from that, that's pain. to the extent they can still sell it to china, which they can, china is still going to remain, unless there's a big development here, going to pretty much become the pr

jake, back to you in washington. >> thanks, erin. stay safe. >>> i want to go to clarissa ward who is in the, i believe capital of -- no, she's in kharkiv in eastern ukraine. clarissa, tell us what you're seeing there and how people in that city, which is, i think, only about 18 miles from the russian border, how they are dealing with all of this. >> people are petrified, jake. i mean, everyone is now waiting to see when this ground invasion turns into a full-on encirclement of this city. will they lay siege to the city? will there be fighting in the city? i asked a woman who was one of hundreds of people we found taking shelter in a subway station at a metro station. normally it would have been full of commuters. today, full of people who were hunkered down as artillery and strikes continue to target various places around the city. i asked the woman, do you have a car? is there somewhere you can go? i have a car, but where is there to go right now? and i think that's a sentiment shared by a lot of people now. there's no clarity as to what people should do right now. they have

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jake. >> thank you. let's to go our team in the region. clarissa ward is in ukraine. jill is in moscow. is he going to be satisfied with what he just heard from president biden? >> reporter: so jake, president zelenskyy just released a pre recorded statement in which he expressed profound gratitude. not just to the u.s. but other western nations for the sanctions. it's no secret that before hand, ukraine's attitude had been, if you're so sure it will happen, why don't you imflemt sanctions now? why do you wait for russia to launch an incursion before doing so? but now there is a sense that everyone is in lock-step and grateful, as i mentioned, for that support. the other thing emin this statement that i thought was interesting, he is going to go ahead and call up reservists from the military for a sort of designated period of time. this is first time we have heard president volodymyr zelenskyy talking about what ukraine's military response might be to this. and that's because there is now after a long time of taking the attitude of keep calm and carry on, there is a sort of grim reluctan

ward. she is also in ukraine at the capital of kyiv. you heard jakeullivan describing there how a major invasion would be brutal. it would be deadly. i met ukrainians who say they've got weapons in their home. they're prepared to fight if necessary, alongside the army, and at the same time, you and i, we've seen calmness in many of the cities here. how are ukrainians particularly in the capital preparing? >> reporter: so jim, it's interesting. the streets of kyiv today, again, we've been out walking around this afternoon. it is calm, maybe a little bit tense, but absolutely quiet, i would say. and that may be because ukrainians aren't hearing quite the same things on their news bulletins that we're hearing in the u.s. and in other countries around the world. ukraine's leadership is really trying to adopt a more moderate tone on this topic talking about ongoing efforts to, you know, resume some kind of a diplomatic process and also trying to refute russian accusations of atrocities being carried out by the ukrainian military because while it may be qui

adviser, jake sullivan in brussels today, and as well as secretary lincoln so obviously, hearing from them what they're hearing on the ground from european leaders as well. >> kaitlan collins, clarissa ward, jill doherty, thank you for being with us tonight. i'm joined now by cnn military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark, army general, thank you so much for beeing wih us. were you surprised to hear president biden say point blank that vladimir putin made up his mind to invade. >> i was isurprised to hear it o objectively that he must have some evidence, john, and listening to your conversation, it really struck me that what we're seeing -- you remember i told you last week, there would be a lot of preparatory moves, the military calls that a synchronization matrix, following one thing after another that will lead to d-day, if you call d-day the day the attack starts, we're in d minus one or d minus two now, we've seen indicators of that all week, i go back to when president biden refused to delay talking to mr. putin on tuesday and wanted to do it on i think sunday instead. that tells me he had some information that things were going to start earlier. listening to the president t